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4302
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Over 4,000 full-or-part-time craftspersons live in economically depressed Western North Carolina. HandMade in America is a project that seeks to promote and preserve the crafts of this area and to transform the area into the nation's craft center. To assist in this project, promoters have produced a guidebook that directs people through the twenty-one county region, locating and describing points of interest, such as basket weaving or quilt making.
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25757
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Graham County’s unemployment have more than tripled since 1975, giving the county the highest rate in North Carolina for the last year and a half. Now, at the height of tourist season, unemployment still hovers around 17 percent; in the winter months it has been topping 30 percent which is 10 times the Triangle’s unemployment rate. An increasing number of families are living below the poverty line. THE INDEPENDENT profiles the Buchanan clan that has lived in Graham County for more than a hundred years.
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Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 5 Issue 15, August 13-26 1987, p1, 7-9, por Periodical Website
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31486
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This article describes Patsy Moore Ginns’ new book, Snowbird Gravy and Dishpan Pie: Mountain People Recall, and presents personal narratives about mountain living in North Carolina.
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Carolina Country (NoCar HD 9688 N8 C38x), Vol. 14 Issue 11, Nov 1982, p8-9, il
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35138
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This article is an excerpt from a book the author was currently working on, and dealt with her brief time spent in a mountain settlement, trying to separate folktale from truth.
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35883
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The geographical characteristics of surroundings can often seem to impress themselves on the individual. People that lived in the mountains tended to be independent, stubborn, and had their own code of honor.